The EU's introduction of the Digital Markets Act next year has seemingly forced Apple to allow iOS users to sideload apps, despite years of lobbying against the move.
‘, which highlighted the ‘important role’ of the App Store in protecting both users and app developers by preventing malware and piracy running rampant on iPhones.
There would also be other ramifications for Apple thanks to the EU’s Digital Markets Act. For one, the Cupertino giant will need to make more of their application programming interfaces open to third-party apps. They also need to allow other apps to use certain features on the iPhone—for example, only Apple’s Wallet and Apple Pay can currently.
That being said, Apple is apparently yet to decide on some issues within the Digital Markets Act still, such as whether or not to allow app developers from giving users a way to make in-app purchases and subscriptions without going through the App Store. There’s no word yet on whether they plan to open up iMessage and integrate it into RCS either, the messaging protocol
. Furthermore, these changes could also go into effect only for European iPhone users first, rather than going global immediately.
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